ADVANCE May 2026

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots: Far From Home Cyndi Lauper, Jamie Chung and Danny Trejo discover their family tree with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (R-5/17, 8 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG WORLD Shared Planet: Open Spaces (See 5/6 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots: Larger Than Life Henry Louis Gates Jr. connects Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried to their dramatic ancestors. TV-PG WORLD Human Footprint: The Ground Below

10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Second Sight, Part 2

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(See 5/7 at 9:35 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

WORLD Amanpour and Company

THURSDAY 14

4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: WORLD BBC World News 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow:

Iowa Life Monday, May 11

Paris: Embracing Life and Art

Shane explores the human footprint of cotton, from ancient rocks to 21st century politics. TV-PG

9:30 p.m on Iowa PBS .1 In a new episode of Iowa Life , Tobi

Parks brings new energy to Des Moines’ music scene; Ron Howing’s decades of conservation revive Iowa’s wetlands; the Great Pyramids of Avery endure; and in Independence, Em’s Coffee Company brews belonging and opportunity.

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Frontline WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Second Sight, Part 1 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: WORLD BBC World News 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Charleston, Hour 3 WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour (R-5/13, 9 p.m., WORLD) WORLD WORLD Amanpour and Company Paris: Regal and Intimate

Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, Hour 3

WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour

(See 5/10 at 1 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

(R-5/14, 9 p.m., WORLD)

6:30 p.m. WORLD Independent Lens: Natchez

Home Is a Hotel Follow the lives of five residents living in single room occupancy hotels, sometimes with their entire family, in rooms as small as 80 sq. ft. TV-PG

WORLD

(See 5/11 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-5/16, 11 a.m., WORLD)

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Nature:

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown: The Tree of Truth

Attenborough and the Sea Dragon The discovery of the Ichthyosaur, a fish lizard that lived during the age of dinosaurs, is explored. (R-5/17, 7 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

(See 5/7 at 9:35 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

Father Brown deems it his duty to overturn a miscarriage of justice. TV-PG Geographies of Kinship The story Korea’s global adoption program is told through the stories of four adoptees. (R-5/17, 8 a.m., WORLD) Exposed to the Light A fundraising evening turns deadly when a local businessman is found strangled. Ghost Mountain: The Second Killing Fields of Cambodia Explore the harrowing rule of the Khmer Rouge and their killing fields in Cambodia. (R-5/17, 9:30 a.m., WORLD) TV-PG The Brokenwood Mysteries:

WEDNESDAY 13

WORLD America ReFramed:

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA:

Decoding the Universe: Quantum Discover the world of the subatomic realm in the quantum universe. (R-5/19, 6 p.m., WORLD) DVS

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

WORLD Frontline 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Shared Planet: Forests Journey from Guatemala to Japan to meet the pioneers restoring the way we coexist. (R-5/19, 7 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

8:30 p.m. WORLD

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Green Planet: Seasonal Worlds Sir David Attenborough reveals

Montiers: An American Story Family portraits found under a bed unraveled the story of an African American family with a rich history. (R-5/16, 12:30 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

surprising and dramatic effects of the four seasons on plant life. DVS/TV-PG

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour

WORLD DW The Day

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